International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE), co-located with AAMAS 2026

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Program

IMPORTANT: The schedule times are in Cyprus time (Eastern European Summer Time, UTC+3). Please note that this is a tentative schedule; if you notice any issues, please contact us as soon as possible. Also, please check the website regularly, as there may be updates.

9h00 - 9h05 Welcome and Opening
9h05 - 10h15 Session 1: Organizations and Governance
9h05 - 9h20 Exploring Measures of Agentic Power for Organisational Workflow Structures [PDF]
Andrea Marino, L. Thomas van Binsbergen, Tom van Engers, Giovanni Sileno
9h20 - 9h30 Governing AI Economic Agency: A Coupled Design Space (Blue Sky) [PDF]
Elsa Donnat
9h30 - 9h45 Agent Contracts: A Formal Framework for Resource-Bounded Autonomous AI Systems [PDF]
Qing Ye, Jing Tan
9h45 - 10h00 LLM-augmented Empirical Game Theoretic Simulation for Social-Ecological Systems [PDF]
Jennifer Shi, Christopher K. Frantz, Christian Kimmich, Saba Siddiki, Atrisha Sarkar
10h00 - 10h15 Why Open Source? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the AI Race [PDF]
Andjela Mladenovic, Aaron Courville, Gauthier Gidel
10h15 - 11h00 Coffee Break
11h00 - 12h30 Session 2: Values, Norms, and Policies
11h00 - 11h15 CAVA: Contextual Argumentation for Value-based Assessment [PDF]
Jack Alexander McKinlay, Janina Anna Hoffmann, Andreas Theodorou, Marina De Vos
11h15 - 11h30 Large Language Models Exhibit Normative Conformity [PDF]
Mikako Bito, Keita Nishimoto, Kimitaka Asatani, Ichiro Sakata
11h30 - 11h45 Anticipatory Thinking in Normative Contexts [PDF]
Jomi Fred Hubner, Elena Yan, Luis Gustavo Nardin, Olivier Boissier
11h45 - 12h00 Constraint-driven abductive explanations as a mechanism for reflective normative reasoning [PDF]
Nathan Lloyd, Peter R. Lewis
12h00 - 12h15 Social norm dynamics in a behavioral epidemic model [PDF]
Christos Charalambous
12h15 - 12h30 Robust Policy Design in Agent-Based Simulators using Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
Akash Agrawal, Joel Dyer, Aldo Glielmo, Michael J. Wooldridge
12h30 - 14h00 Lunch Break
14h00 - 14h45 Keynote
Operationalizing Responsible Autonomy in Human-AI Collaboration
Pinar Yolum
14h45 - 15h30 Session 3: Responsibility and Ethics
14h45 - 15h00 Filling Causal Responsibility Gaps in Spatial Interactions using Feasible Action-Space Reduction by Groups [PDF]
Vassil Guenov, Ashwin George, Arkady Zgonnikov, David A. Abbink, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert
15h00 - 15h10 Ethical Non-Closure Under Agentication: Why Action-Level Frameworks Fail for Trajectory-Producing Systems (Blue Sky) [PDF]
Matthew Stewart
15h10 - 15h20 Benchmarking Machine Ethics (Blue Sky) [PDF]
Louise A. Dennis, Marija Slavkovik, Xin Quan
15h20 - 15h30 Bayesian Game-Theoretic Modeling of Pedestrian-Autonomous Vehicle Interaction (Short Paper) [PDF]
Dae-Hyun Yoo, Marija Slavkovik
15h30 - 16h15 Coffee Break
16h15 - 17h05 Session 4: Trust, Privacy, and Explainability
16h15 - 16h25 Theoretical and Empirical Evidence for Trust in Embodied Agents: Integrating Conscious Agent Theory and Computational Trust Models (Short Paper) [PDF]
Kevin Babashov, Maria Gini
16h25 - 16h40 Privacy for Everyone: Learning to Respect Privacy in Multi-party Content Sharing [PDF]
Hüseyin Aydın, Alper Demir, Pinar Yolum
16h40 - 16h55 Re-Framing Transparency, Interpretability, and Explainability for Multi-Agent Systems [PDF]
Jessica Woodgate, Daniel Collins, Yining Yuan, Nirav Ajmeri
16h55 - 17h05 Perspectives on the Explanation of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems (Blue Sky) [PDF]
Elena Yan, Luis Gustavo Nardin, Alessandro Ricci, Samuele Burattini, Guillaume Muller, Jomi Fred Hubner, Jaime Simão Sichman, Olivier Boissier
17h05 - 17h30 Reflections (Topics to be finalized) and Closing Session